Paulo Fonseca saw ‘a lot of positives’ to take from Roma’s 6-1 thrashing of SPAL, with special mentions for several players including Bruno Peres.
Roma returned to fifth in Serie A with a comprehensive victory over already-relegated SPAL, and Fonseca liked his team’s ‘aggression and attitude’.
“Sometimes in games like this, when the other side don’t have anything riding on it, it can be even more dangerous,” he said after the game.
Paulo Fonseca saw ‘a lot of positives’ to take from Roma’s 6-1 thrashing of SPAL, with special mentions for several players including Bruno Peres.
Roma returned to fifth in Serie A with a comprehensive victory over already-relegated SPAL, and Fonseca liked his team’s ‘aggression and attitude’.
“Sometimes in games like this, when the other side don’t have anything riding on it, it can be even more dangerous,” he said after the game.
“The players were aggressive and showed the attitude they needed to in order to win.
“We have some very tired players who have played in pretty much all of the last few games but tonight we were able to rotate a bit, during the game as well – that’s important.”
The Giallorossi had five different scorers on the night in Edin Dzeko’s absence.
“Yes – even if for me the important thing is that we score goals, not who scores them.
“Right now though our wide players have more opportunity to score because they are more often in the final third. In those circumstances you need clinical players.
“Carles Perez, for example, scored a great goal and had a good game. This evening I was pleased with the performance of everyone.
“The players are motivated and are playing well. We need to make sure we win our games; we must only think about the game against Fiorentina, about making sure some of our tired players are able to recover.
“Leonardo Spinazzola, Bruno Peres, Kolarov, [Gianluca] Mancini, Diawara – all of them are tired. So it was good to be able to manage them a bit ahead of a tough game like Fiorentina.”
Peres bagged two of the Giallorossi’s goals, in what is turning into a real resurgence for the wingback, who was playing in the Brazilian second tier only recently.
“There were a lot of positives. Smalling came back and did well, as did Zaniolo. Kolarov played well, Bruno is improving – they are all important things for the team.
“We will have to see how everyone is going into the next match, but as I have said before I don’t really want to change things a lot right now.”